Due to have a hysterectomy but am scared to death after viewing a video about side effects!

For over fifty years the medical industry and gynecologists have relied on a relatively inaccurate tissue test the "Pap Smear" to diagnose cervical cancer and HPV. American women have been subjected to bare their naked bodies to gynecologists and medical doctors to be scraped and tested for over a half century. Most women in the "United States Of America" will agree, they have been taught since menstruation they were ticking time bombs vaginally and "must" disrobe to avoid becoming a female organ cancer statistic. Women and young girls are subjected to this humiliating "naked" medical testing ritual awaiting the results of their future fate. Take all of your clothes off and be vaginally invaded with gloved hands and cold medical instruments or die, basically. There is no medical reason now for women to "get naked" to have a "pap smear" but women are not being medically informed about a new, "better", simple blood test either. The blood test called the "Cervical Specific Antigen" is almost 100% reliable. The "CSA" blood test was patented in the "United States of America" a few years ago and has been kept very quiet in the gynecological medical industry and the media. The "CSA" blood test will end the humiliating and degrading naked tests women and girls have endured. Is "societal control of the female gender" in gynecological "care" similar to the "inquisition", yes.

Terri, there are many books out trying to tell unsuspencting women the very thing all these wonderful ladies are trying to tell you. It might help you to read some of them to get a clearer perspective. You can buy any of these books on Amazon. "The Hysterectomy Hoax" by Stanley West, M.D. (ob/gyn), "Misinformed Consent" by Lise Cloutier-Steele, "The Ultimate Rape" by Elizabeth L. Plourde, and the latest, "The H Word", by Nora Coffey. There are many more books out about this, and from what I see, doctors and women have been trying to warn other women about this for years. Pick up "The Hysterectomy Hoax". I think you will be shocked and enlightened at what this doctor reveals about his own profession.

Someone mentioned picking up an old gynecology book which is a great idea, however, you can also find them for free on Google books, and read gynecology journals from circa 1900. It's shocking to see that way back then they were removing fibroids, ovarian cysts, and they even spoke out about how bad it was to remove women's reproductive sex organs when they could be saved. Yet as of 2009, they have removed one-third of the female organs from women in the U.S. It's pretty shocking to think that every 1 in 3 women you look at do not have their female organs. What other statistic is so extreme? There are none.

When I first came upon the HERS site, I was shocked and horrified, and it took me several months of researching myself, reading books, finding information on the net, to confirm what the HERS Foundation was saying. I didn't just come upon it and blindly believe it all, I searched out other sources, and unfortunatly came to the nighmarish conclusion that it was all true.

Do your homework and save yourself. Good luck to you.

Yes, men tend to "get it" more quickly than women do, but, with the medical professions chiming in in a loud protective chorus, men are taught from infancy the value of their sexual, reproductive, and endocrine organs...while women largely are not. Terri, it is probably more for this reason than any other that you have trouble accepting what is being said. The widespread prevalance of hysterectomy and ovary removal makes 'em seem benign. Unfortunately, nothing could be further from the truth. Also, people want to believe in their doctors as that makes us feel safer. We know that what we're asking of you requires a rewrite of all that you've held before, but, far better now than later. Keep in mind that doctors and hospitals are in reality a business-- and that all the scrutiny that you would apply to your other business transactions should be applied here.

Terri, Ah, have you hit on a nerve! Because you are right! You haven't heard from the medical profession to dispute the HERS video---and, Terri, that is because they can't! That video wasn't made without painstaking research and expert input. Experts not just in the gyn field but in human anatomy. But it goes even further than that. Start reading the gyn sites not for how quick the surgery and recovery time is or for how their robot compares...but pay attention to what they say are the adverse "complications"(really, consequences)--long and short term. My bet is that the gyn/hospital site will not address that. Oh, the site may well refer you elsewhere--elsewhere as in the gyn/hospital legally not being responsible for what is said on the recommended/referred site. Remember the old saw about "the devil being in the details?"
Terri, if nothing else, go buy an old gyn text for a few bucks and spend an hour with it. Read not what you're being told but what the experts tell each other. I've got a 1985 Te Linde's "Operative Gynecology" that notes not only the sexual dysfunction, but, post procedure rapid aging as well as discussing "the hysterectomy cripple". That is, to name but a few of the highlights.
In Colgan's "Hormonal Health," he notes that the first bcp were way too strong and that, when big pharma started getting the cancer numbers in, they quietly changed their formulas. He states that if lawsuits had proceeded, they would've dwarfed any previous litigation to date. Terri, there is an important reason that they were able to get by with this. The medical profession is very protective of its' own and of its' practices. Any member going against the grain will be severely punished-- and you typically need the medical profession to bring a med mal suit.
Which brings me to a health tip that I wanted to share. There are many environmental estrogens that are many times more powerful than are the human female hormones. For example, estrogen can be given to cows to produce more beef while other hormones can make the animals produce more milk. Yet another example is that plastics and pesticides may have estrogenic properties. "Used" pharmaceuticals can wind up in our drinking water as our water systems normally do not filter out drugs.
I firmly believe that none of this bodes well for us. Quoting again from the AARP article by Dr. Servan-Schreiber, "In far too many Americans, these defenses are breaking down. Cancer rates increased steadily for decades before beginning a slight decline in recent years. And cancers that have no screening test-lymphomas, and pancreatic and testicular cancers, for example-are still rising. While the aging of the population plays a role, it is not the sole cause: cancer in children and adolescents rose at a rate of 1 to 1.5 percent per year during the 30 years ending in 1999. Asian countries have not experienced the same trends. Yet within one or two generations, Asian Americans get some cancers at rates similar to those of Caucasian Americans."
While I believe all of this to be dangerous enough for the intact, what of the woman without the ovarian production of sex steriods to fill her hormone receptors? And, if cholesterol is a building source for the human sex steriods, then, when the ovaries aren't there to convert it, doesn't that leave these women with high cholesterol?
And, finally, to give you an example of how important these hormones truly are, Woolsey did research on monkeys that showed that after 10 days of estrogen deprivation, the dendrite spines in their brains were permanently shortened.
Last but not least, I want you to know that I am not employed by the HERS Foundation. Nope, I'm an unemployed housewife who has a long list of domestic things to do before her--including a hubby now waiting for his breakfast more than an hour. I take this time out to talk to you only because I would give the world if someone had taken the time out to talk to me. My hubby waits patiently because he understands this.
You see, he has picked up and read some of my medical literature and, "He gets it!"

I found HERS Foundation on the internet after I trusted a gynecologist surgeon and a former friend about the consequences of hysterectomy. When I started reading the information and consequences at HERS, I started crying profusely. I knew that moment that what I was reading was accurate because it was what I was trying to explain to the gynecologists, all of them, was happening to my body. The gynecologist kept saying "I have never heard of that before". And not only that, the gynecologists started to demean me and insult me. I believe this is the gynecologists way of getting rid of the women after they cash in on them legally by deceit for profit. This is the standard in gynecology today and it is atrocious, heinous, sexist and demeaning.
I am not affiliated with the HERS Foundation and the foundation has no members. Just women who are warned of the reality of sex organ amputation and castration and avoid being medically tricked and permanently maimed and those who find HERS Foundation after they are tricked desperately seeking answers they are not getting from the medical industry.
This practice of de-sexing women has been medically accepted and promoted for so long that undoing it will be quite a task. By admitting the decades long hysterectomy charade the medical industry will be discrediting decades of medical doctors. If medical doctors speak against hysterectomy/oophorectomy publicly, they are black-balled from the medical industry.
HERS Foundation just wrote a book, The H Word, try reading the book to understand the magnitude of hysterectomy and oophorectomy or sex organ amputation and castration.
I agree with the woman on another forum who states very accurately that the removal of the uterus and ovaries in a woman is no different medically than the spaying of a cat. I actually said that to the gynecologist surgeon who legally attacked me. I said in horrific pain and hormonal havoc "you have spayed me like a cat". The gynecologist surgeon said "I wouldn't know about that, I'm not a veterinarian, I'm a surgeon, "eat three blueberries a day now". I was horrified then and I am horrified now.